Quote, The old merchant was to be seen standing on the threshold of his shop, as if by a miracle, the instant the servant withdrew. Monsieur Guillaume looked at the Rue Saint-Denis, at the neighboring shops, and at the weather, like a man disembarking at Havre, and seeing France once more after a long voyage.

Quote, If you call them dreams. Night after night. Vivid!--so vivid . . . . this-- (he indicated the landscape that went streaming by the window) seems unreal in comparison! I can scarcely remember who I am, what business I am on . . . .

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One day the king found that his daughter, the princess, had taken a lover far beneath her station. The king could not allow this and so he threw the suitor in prison and set a date for his trial in the arena. On the day of his trial the suitor looked to the princess for some indication of which door to pick. The princess, did, in fact, know which door concealed the woman and which one the tiger, but was faced with a conundrum. If she indicated the door with the tiger, then the man she loved would be killed on the spot. However, if she indicated the door with the lady, her lover would be forced to marry another woman and even though he would be alive she would never be with him again. Despite this catch 22 she does end up indicating a door, which the suitor then opens. At this point the question is posed to the reader, Did the tiger come out of that door, or did the lady? the question is not answered, though, and is left as a thought experiment regarding human nature. From its publication and surprise ending, the lady or the tiger has come into the English language as an expression meaning an unsolvable problem. A continuation of this story appeared later as The Discourager of Hesitancy.

Explorations In Australia by John Forrest, Illust by G.F. AngasSampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle London 1875Important account of Forrest?s successful exploration, in which he became the first person to cross the Australian continent West to East. Full accounts of Forrest?s two expeditions of 1869 and 1870 as well as the main account of his most important expedition in 1874 across the interior, from the west coast to the Telegraph Line. A work of great significance which should be in everyones collection of Australiana. Forrest began his first expedition as Government Surveyor in 1869, at the age of twenty-one, setting out from Perth in search of traces of Leichhardt. The expedition ascertained that rumours which referred to a party of white men being slain by local Aborigines twenty years before did not relate to Leichhardt?s party but to Robert Austin?s expedition. Forrest went on to the east of Lake Barlee to Mount Weld before returning to Perth.On Forrest?s return another expedition in search of Leichhardt was mooted - this time to travel from the Murchison River to Carpentaria. However lack of funds prevented so extensive an expedition, and instead it was proposed that Forrest cross from Perth to Adelaide, around the Great Australian Bight, in search of farming land. By taking the coastal route, the crossing was achieved by Forrest in an extraordinary five months. This feat, which had taken Eyre over twelve months to complete, is a testament to Forrest?s formidable abilities as an explorer and professional surveyor, and to that of his brother Alexander who was his second-in-command.The success of Forrest?s first two expeditions spurred him on in 1874 to take on the last great challenge of Australian inland exploration: to ascertain the nature of the interior by crossing the continent from Perth to the Telegraph Line which ran between Darwin and Adelaide